Who Is John Brown A Terrorist

Manny Gomez

John browns early life

Was john brown and American terrorist? John Brown was an American Abolitionist. Throughout john browns life, he always thought of himself as god’s servant to help free African American slaves. John brown was born on May 9th 1800. During his early years, he helped herd cattle as a means to help his family when they lived in Michigan. One day he was sheltered by man who owned a slave, he witnessed the slave being beaten by hot shovel. That memory would haunt him for the rest of his life. At the age of five his family moved to Hudson, Ohio. His mother passed away when he was 8 years old. John brown was a Calvinist, a Calvinist was a religion that god was a judge,

The issue America faced in 1859 was slavery. There were seven and half million Americans, and over half were slaves. John Brown who was an abolitionist was different from other people who were against slavery, while others used words to oppose slavery, Brown used violence. He viewed slavery as slaves whose rights were disregarded by white men. In 1859 Brown wanted to take revenge after forces stormed the town of Lawrence in the Kansas territory. He abducted and murdered five pro slavery settlers, known as the Pottawatomie massacre. He became famous for attempting to raid the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, so that he could use the weapons to free enslaved African Americans. In doing so he failed and was captured and sentenced to death. He justified his views by saying it was the right thing to do, others thought of it as a “noble

During the raid a free African American who was guarding the arsenal tried to warn a train full of passengers and was shot and killed by one of Browns men in the process. Two of John Browns sons were shot and killed during the shootout, Brown and his men were outnumbered and fled. Not only did the raid at Harpers Ferry failed, things got worse for Brown when word got out to the public that he was responsible of the killing of a free African American. He was then hated by everyone who once supported him in the cause to end slavery. In my opinion I would have supported John brown and his cause to end slavery. My first reason would have to be that slavery was wrong, and by helping john brown it would help aid him in his cause, everyone has equal rights and freedom, and also my final reason would be that if I supported him I would try to convince him to use words instead of